Ricky Martin said: “Buddha’s teachings are very simple, you don’t have to break your head to understand the message. The part that I like the most from Buddha’s teachings and from His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, is that the most powerful weapon is to not attack, to be able to have self-control.” What is Creator’s perspective?

It is useful to see many perspectives about how one lives and carries out an important mission to advance the cause of the divine, and that very much includes the cause of humanity. You are indeed the divine human, an extension of our consciousness, and thus you share our holiness from your very inception and continued existence, but you have the free will choice in how you express that, or even hold it in your awareness, and give it value and consideration in guiding your life in any way whatsoever. It is all up to you. We would remind you that you do have an obligation to the care and feeding of your soul. When you go against your divinity, it will take a toll on you because you are not honoring the truth of things, and your soul will suffer, and it will have an impact on you wherever you are and whatever you might be doing. This is true for all beings who go against their nature for whatever reason, there will be a consequence of some unpleasantness that will result. This is perfectly understandable, and predictable, being the nature of energy. When energies are aligned they combine together to make a greater whole. When they are in conflict, they clash, and may well cancel out one another and bring about a diminishment. It is all governed by your intention as a conscious soul-based being. You are in charge of this. Everything that happens to you, you are responsible for. The first obligation is to know what you are about, keep a reasonable perspective in mind, husband your resources so you do not overexert yourself, or engage in a kind of folly by overreaching, and put yourself at risk by taking on more than you can handle, and certainly, to not make a karmic misstep through wrongdoing that will cause you to lose ground, or that misstep will have an energetic consequence you will have to repay to bring things back into balance. The key is self-control. If you learn as you go with due caution and respect for the realities of existence, taking care with what you do and how you do it, being respectful of your circumstances, the rights of others, and have a realistic assessment of your own strengths and weaknesses, this will favor achieving success and avoiding failure. So having self-control does not simply mean a state of inaction so as to not make a transgression through taking a risk and failing to do the right thing, it is employing your energy wisely and well in all you do. That control will be an ongoing need and a dynamic moment-by-moment recalibration of energetic flow guided by your thoughts and feelings, as intentions to make things happen or hold them in abeyance. You cannot do everything at once and sometimes an emotional reaction might lead to an ill-considered act that will have a consequence that cannot be recalled. Controlling the emotions to prevent an ill‑considered overreaction to something, or a temptation to lash out at someone because of their wrongdoing may only worsen things and is a missed opportunity to regain inner balance and equanimity, through self-control, before one decides how to respond to mistreatment. So this indeed is a very important principle, capability, and goal wrapped into one, because everything about the spectrum of possibilities, from good to bad, right to wrong, lofty to empty, or depraved at the extremes, will be a function of ongoing oversight, calibration, and a regulation of energy in how it is utilized, all of which depends on self-control and, with experience, growing wisdom in the art of living.